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letting non-root users mount samba shares
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| bharat chandramouli 2002-06-24, 7:13 pm |
| Hi, i have my samba up and running fine and windows machines can find and
share files on my computer. but i am not able to mount shares on other
computers except as root. when i try, i get to a password prompt, and i
get the following error.
cannot mount on /mnt/volcano: Operation not permitted
smbmnt failed: 1
when i try to mount it explicitly,
mount -t smbfs //VOLCANO/SHARED /mnt/volcano/
mount: only root can do that
here's the relevant part of my fstab
//VOLCANO/SHARED /mnt/volcano smbfs umask=0,noauto,users,uid=500,g
id=100 0 0
i understand this is a permission issue. i changed the permissions on
smbmnt and smbmount to the following...
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 418876 Aug 13 2001 /usr/bin/smbmount
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 409532 Aug 13 2001 /usr/bin/smbmnt
what do i need to change to enable normal users to mount smbfs?
thanks
bc
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| Borax Man 2002-06-26, 7:25 am |
| bharat chandramouli wrote:
> Hi, i have my samba up and running fine and windows machines can find and
> share files on my computer. but i am not able to mount shares on other
> computers except as root. when i try, i get to a password prompt, and i
> get the following error.
>
> cannot mount on /mnt/volcano: Operation not permitted
> smbmnt failed: 1
>
> when i try to mount it explicitly,
>
> mount -t smbfs //VOLCANO/SHARED /mnt/volcano/
> mount: only root can do that
>
> here's the relevant part of my fstab
>
> //VOLCANO/SHARED /mnt/volcano smbfs umask=0,noauto,users,uid=500,g
id=100 0 0
>
> i understand this is a permission issue. i changed the permissions on
> smbmnt and smbmount to the following...
>
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 418876 Aug 13 2001 /usr/bin/smbmount
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 409532 Aug 13 2001 /usr/bin/smbmnt
>
> what do i need to change to enable normal users to mount smbfs?
>
> thanks
> bc
>
>
Set the SUID bit on the SMB binaries like so while logged in as root/
chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmount
You man want to do that with all the samba binaries. Doing this will
make the binaries run with root permission regardless of who executed them.
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